Re: Sad scirocco story

["Foxx (in a box)" <iraldly@otterbein.edu>]

  thank you for posting this now and not having to bring us down on the
weekend. anyone willing to go car-part-thief hunting?

> I just got this message from someone who visited my website, almost made me
> cry :(

> >Dear Owen,
> >Thank you for writing back but it's too late to help but I have to tell you
> >what happened anyway.  About a year ago I came across your web site and
> >loved your car.  I had my red 16v '88 Scirocco for over seven years and it
> >was my baby and I'm a girl, go figure!  Anyway we went up to Mount Baker
> for
> >my b-day in July and my timing belt went.  Granted no one told me about
> >needing to replace it every so many miles because I would have.  I even had
> >an Excel spreadsheet on all work that had been completed to keep it running
> >in excellent condition.  Anyway I had to rent a U-Haul truck to tow it home
> >and I'd never driven a truck, only my little sports car so it was rough!
> My
> >daughter and I were white knuckled all the way down the mountain and then
> >when we were on I-5
> >South bound out of Bellingham I could have swore that you drove right past
> >me.  I'm not sure if it hurt or helped to have the beautiful car pass me by
> >but at the time I think it helped.  So I got it to my trustworthy mechanic
> >all the way to Federal Way, WA. which is why I towed it all that way.
> While
> >it was at the mechanics shop on the waiting list to be fixed was when I
> >wrote you.  Then a week later my mechanic calls to tell me that all the
> >valves were bent and it would be spendy to fix and over the weekend thieves
> >had come into his lot and stripped my car.  They took the seats, ripped the
> >roof interior to get to the antenna, took the grill, I think even the
> carpet
> >and my heart was broken.  Knowing it would cost a great deal and after much
> >thought I had to walk away from a car I thought I would have forever.  I
> got
> >an insurance settlement and got a Honda Civic '97 HX.  It's nice and I'm
> >learning to really shift down to try and get the power that I'm so used to,
> >'cause it sure aint there in fourth and fifth! but it has a V-tech engine
> >(not turbo) and it's reliable for me to road trip alone with my daughter
> in.
> >But I could'nt look at the Scirocco after it had been so trashed, my
> >mechanic had to get the remaining things out for me.  So my last memory is
> a
> >of good one of a sunny day, on my birthday cruisin down the mountain
> >highway, music cranked, that beautiful hum of the engine- and then silence.
> >I will miss it always!  Anyway you don't have to write me back but I am
> >curious, was it you that passed me, if you remember it? Take care. Shawn

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